In a recent interview during a trip to the US, ASUS chairman Jonney Shih told Forbes that his company is working on “at least two” tablet PCs. The news, of course, comes just ahead of the release of Apple’s iPad, which is set for this Saturday. One of the tablets, according to Shih, will run a Google OS–likely Chrome. The other will be based on Microsoft Windows.
Shih, whose company helped lead the netbook explosion, sees such a tablet co-existing with the space. “Netbooks are the best combination of personal computing and cloud computing,” Shih told Forbes. “But between netbooks and smartphones and e-readers, we think there will be a space for something like a tablet or slate PC.”
The tablets–the Google-based on,e especially–will focus on delivering multimedia content.